Travelers Information Service Expansion Under Consideration

[ChrisSmolinski]

If you (like most of your fellow citizens) spend much time on the highways and by-ways of our great country – or if you have an interest (commercial or otherwise) in reaching folks on those same highways and by-ways – listen up. The Commission has launched a rulemaking to explore possible changes in the Travelers Information Service (TIS), the AM-based low-power service that provides a constant diet of, um, travelers information along highways and near various travel-based locations. At the request of several associations of government officials and TIS operators, the FCC has issued an Order and Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to consider whether TIS stations should be permitted to air a greater range of information at greater power in a greater variety of locations. The range of possible changes includes, at one extreme, a substantial redefinition of the service itself...


http://www.commlawblog.com/2011/01/articles/broadcast/travelers-information-service-expansion-under-consideration/

[cmradio]

Hehehehe, at least they are useful for telling us WHY we're already stuck for six hours on the Coquihalla HWY without previous warning

Peace!

[zackers]

The one in my area is on 530 kHz. I'm only a few blocks from the antenna. I have to try to null it out with my LF loop to hear a station beneath it. But other than that it doesn't cause much interference like the AM broadcast station on 580 does.